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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., , JA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
55 62 ; 55 74 ; 55179 ; 55208 ; 55269 ; 55387 ; 62 18 ;
Abstract
Hydrocarbons are removed from a waste gas including oxygen, hydrocarbons and radioactive Krypton-85 (hereinafter referred to as 'Kr-85'), which is generated in a nuclear reactor and a fuel recycling plant without adopting the reduction method of oxygen by adding hydrogen; the resultant gas is caused to pass through an activated charcoal layer and Kr-85 is adsorbed to the activated charcoal layer; the rest of gas is discharged to the atmosphere; further oxygen remaining in the activated charcoal layer is returned to a process of removing hydrocarbons; and thereafter Kr-85 adsorbed to the activated charcoal layer is desorbed, condensed and recovered.